I was listening to the Vox podcast, The Weeds, and they happened to mention that they developed their own in-house model for the election that predicted a Trump victory. No one could believe it, so they ignored it, and in fact, one of their writers criticized Nate Silver’s model for not being more pro-Clinton …

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Years ago, when I worked at Virtumundo/Adknowledge, we used Dell laptops (other than an unfortunate foray into Toshiba), which I loaded Linux on. I used Fedora, SuSE, and Ubuntu for years. At some point though, I got tired of some issues with audio and Linux, and I made the switch to the Mac, starting with …

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If only children were given some sort of authority figure with the responsbility of monitoring their intake of entertainment and online content. Consumer watchdog groups, CCFC, Public Citizen, and the Center for Digital Democracy, are again targeting the deceptive advertising practices of “influencer.. Source: FTC complaint alleges Google, Disney & others profit from deceptive ads …

Over a year ago, I was discussing the differences between Siri and Google Now with a friend. He thought Siri was friendlier because it would respond to the statement “I’m hungry”, and find you places to eat. Google Now was a little more mechanical at the time, but if you knew the phrasing, you could …

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Checkout this new skeptic podcast from Sharon, Howard and Torkel! First episode was pretty good, and I’m glad to be able to say I’ve met them all in person. Skepticism needs some more good podcasts, as it seems there’s a bit of a lull. Welcome to 15 Credibility Street, the podcast of Doubtful News.Your host …

Kind of looking forward to this! The first talk channel all about music, VOLUME delivers live daily shows, weekly specials, and in-depth discussions. Debuts 10/17 on SiriusXM Ch. 106. Source: SiriusXM’s new talk channel VOLUME gives you the liner notes to the world of music | SiriusXM Blog